Flutter Revisited
Last year I took a quick look at Flutter, and decided to keep an eye on it and see how it matures. Here are my current thoughts. Flutter Since my first l...
Android Development
Fun with setOnClickListener and by lazy
The Problem Developing an Android app, using Android’s Navigation Components, and after returning to the first fragment, the button to go to the second frag...
More GitHub Libraries
I’ve come across another potentially useful gradle plugin, and write about one I’ve been using for a while. buildSrcVersions buildSrcVersions “is a Gradle ...
Starred Github Libraries
Over time, I’ve starred a number of libraries on GitHub, and lost track of what they are, and why I’ve starred them. So I thought I’d try recording them her...
Android Navigation Component and the BackStack
Using Android’s Navigation Component, I wanted to keep certain fragments from appearing on the backstack. Here’s how to do it. Why? There’s a couple of si...
Loading and Caching Data with Store
What is Store? Store is a library for “Async Data Loading and Caching” developed by the New York Times Android team. I’ve converted an app to use it, and h...
Flutter?
Flutter? I’ve been seeing Flutter in my news feeds since Google announced it’s in beta. So I thought it was worth taking a cursory look; watching a few vid...
Today’s HeadDesk bought to you by…
Today I’m writing a bit of code and I need to combine a few RxJava streams into a single stream, using combineLatest(). And it’s not working, not even compi...
Activity Lifecycle: Viewing Android’s Activity Lifecycle
Activity Lifecycle is one of the earliest Android apps I wrote, to allow me to see the lifecycle callbacks, in the order they happen. Questions you could as...